Hosted by Border Studies academics Zalfa Feghali and Gillian Roberts, this podcast explores border depictions and encounters in our contemporary world.
Zalfa, Gillian, and their guests discuss borders, their cultural manifestations, and their implications. In their aim to make the academic field of border studies accessible to non-specialist audiences, they ask questions like: “What do borders look like?”, “How are borders used and mobilised in our everyday lives?”, and “What different borders can be known?”
To answer these questions, they consider current events, personal stories, and specialist academic texts, as well as exploring and reflecting on “classic” texts of Border Studies.
Gillian Roberts (she/her) is a settler Canadian scholar who grew up on Algonquin and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. She has moved back and forth across provincial borders in Canada and across the Atlantic between Canada and the UK. She is a coastal girl currently landlocked in the Midlands, where she researches and teaches subjects such as the Canada-US border, film adaptation, and what it means to be a settler in the twenty-first century.
Zalfa Feghali (she/they) is a half-Lebanese, half-Cypriot academic who until 2008 had always lived within view of the Mediterranean. She now lives in the UK, where occasionally temperatures reach “defrosting levels” (>25C), and where she researches the literatures of borders, and the ways we use the word "vulnerable" in literature and other subjects.